Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Children's LiteratureBeschrijving van de ontwikkeling van het hedendaagse Engelstalige kinder- en jeugdboek, in de vorm van een schets van diverse genres, toonaangevende auteurs en afzonderlijke titels. |
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Page 77
... characters are changed to an extent and with a finality quite different from the rather simple and lighthearted " growing up " that the children in earlier books experience . This approach of treating characters as individuals and ...
... characters are changed to an extent and with a finality quite different from the rather simple and lighthearted " growing up " that the children in earlier books experience . This approach of treating characters as individuals and ...
Page 154
... Characters now talk to one another rather than deliver an address and the conversations add to or advance the plot . The children in particular are far less wooden . The younger ones , such as those in Fisk's Grinny or Dickinson's The ...
... Characters now talk to one another rather than deliver an address and the conversations add to or advance the plot . The children in particular are far less wooden . The younger ones , such as those in Fisk's Grinny or Dickinson's The ...
Page 184
... characters with whom he can closely identify ; it is also that the characters must be old enough and mature enough to grasp , and hence impart , the nature of the often awesome events in which they find themselves . For much the same ...
... characters with whom he can closely identify ; it is also that the characters must be old enough and mature enough to grasp , and hence impart , the nature of the often awesome events in which they find themselves . For much the same ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
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